Looking at the film from an ideological approach of chance and the role of randomness in death, we can see the first allusion to this mentioned in the narration by Ed Tom Bell. He speaks about the chaotic nature of crime nowadays, speaking about the murder of a 14 year old girl. While the murderer was believed to have done it as a crime of passion, the brutality of the story is the first sign that Bell feels lost and “overmatched” by the chaotic and unprejudiced violence in the world. This same violence can be seen in the brutal, uncaring killings that Anton Chigurh commits in the next few minutes. He seems to exhibit no emotion as he murders two innocent people simply because they are an obstacle to him, showing him to serve as a sort of embodiment of the cruel and uncaring nature of death. These two people did not deserve or provoke it. They simply died due to being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Lywelyn Moss is established as an experienced, careful and methodical character through the slow paced, patient hunting sequence. He does not rush into the drug deal gone wrong, instead he carefully and methodically surveys the scene and investigates what happened. His monologue to himself, “but if you stopped, you stopped in chase.”, confirms that he is calm, intelligent, and composed. He even waits a long time before approaching the body of the last man standing, and while looking into the bag of money, contemplates to himself for a short time before leaving with the money.
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